Rosemary’s Baby 4K UHD review: This makes Polanski’s film even more disturbing

Review of Rosemary’s Baby – The Red Ribbon of New York in 4K UHD: Plaion’s 55th anniversary edition of Polanski’s film delivers a deeply disturbing video. The Italian audio is less convincing, and the English audio is good. Too bad for the complete lack of extras.

On the occasion of the 55th anniversary of its founding. Rosemary’s baby Reaches a world 4K Ultra HD. Thanks to a restoration by Paramount and a copy distributed by Plaion Pictures, the disturbing film has been made possible Roman Polanski Dating from 1968, and based on the novel by Ira Levin, it is not only presented in the best video format available, but for the first time features its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio compared to the previous 1.78:1 aspect ratio of Blu-Ray Edition , is also present on the two-disc edition covered by this review.

This is the right opportunity to find out Psychological horrorOr watch it again as you’ve never seen it before, which tells the story of Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow), a young woman who moves with her husband to New York in an old building and becomes pregnant. The family faces financial difficulties due to his unstable job, but soon everything stabilizes and the husband achieves sudden professional success. However, at the same time, the girl is surrounded by increasingly obtrusive and intrusive neighbors, and above all, her pregnancy presents ever greater problems that make her increasingly paranoid.

With 4K video, the atmosphere becomes even more evocative

Plaion offers remake With elegant Cover With the Amrai inside with the two discs. One thing is for sure: even if it’s on video 4K Ultra HD The difference compared to Blu-ray is not as big as in other products, Rosemary’s Baby – Red Ribbon in New York has never looked so good. The most important aspects are definitely a Improve contrast There’s an upgrade in brightness balance, with sharper whites and deeper blacks, but there’s also good visibility of detail in the shadows and dark corners. All with perfectly preserved grain, very present but always natural.

six Improvements on Blu-ray Not dramatic, largely due to the original photography of the time and the use of diffusion filters and wide-angle lenses, for a style intended to create Atmosphere with dream-like tones, sick and annoying for sure. Therefore 4K also brings this continuous soft effect, which in any case manages to improve details.

Just look at the furniture in the apartment, the heroes’ clothes, the objects and the close-ups themselves: Everything is well taken care of Even if other 4K devices show clearer details, but there is no doubt that it still stands Feeling soft And blurry images that, as mentioned earlier, are only due to the original footage and the intentions of the filmmakers themselves. Clarity is also more accurate with greater intensity of primary colours, with deeper reds, vibrant blues and vibrant greens.

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Average Italian voice, excellent English. But there are no extras

However, the sound department is less convincing, at least as far as the Italian is concerned, which remains in Dolby Digital 1.0 which necessarily offers limited and unexciting listening, very closed and compressed, with Flat dialogue And spatial zero. Among other things, in some moments there is some slight rustling in the background, even if the track is clean for most of the film and overall listening remains sufficient.

The English track in Dolby TrueHD 2.0 is much betterwhich, in addition to dialogues of a stronger character and wider frequency, conveys in a decidedly more effective way the special sound design of the film, which blends the natural environmental sounds of everyday life with Effects that make the atmosphere full of tension. Krzysztof Komeda’s soundtrack is also more expansive and comprehensive, enhancing its haunting line thanks to a certain weight of bass. Unfortunately, there’s the unpleasant surprise of not finding any extras, not even on the Blu-ray disc. such a pity.